Hay and stock rack



HAY AND STOCK RACK.

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HENRY HOERMAN, or PALMER, KANsAs.

HAY AND STOCK RACK.

SPECIFICATION lforming part of Letters Patent No. 355,765, dated January 11, 1857.

Application tiled Noverml): r 3, 1886. K Serial No. 217,396. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, HENRY HOERMAN, a citizen ofthe United States ofAnierica,residing at Palmer, in the county of ,'Vashington and State of Kansas,haveinvented'certainnew and useful Improvements in Hay'and Stock Racks, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to th-e accompanying drawings.

This invention pertains to certain new and useful improvements in combined hay and stock racks; and it consists in the detailed con! struction, combination, and arrangement of the parts, substantially as hereinafter fully set forth, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a plan view of my invention as employed as a hay-rack. Fig. 2 is a View in perspective, showing the same as a stock-rack; and Figs. `3 and 4 are detail views of my invention.

' In carrying gut my invention, which is employed in connection with an ordinary running-gear or wagon, I employ two longitudinal side bars, A A, connected at one end andat the center by cross-bars ca, and at the other end by cross-bars a c, the latter bar being secured in grooves in the outer ends of said side bars.

Secured to the inner sides of the side bars, immediately over the end cross-bar, a, are two oppositely-disposed uprights or standards, B B, the purpose and moreminute construction of which will bev described hereinafter. To the other end of the side bars are secured the lower ends of two inclined bars, b b, of a ladder, B', said ladder, as usual, having suitable cross-bars connected to said inclined bars, the purpose of which is obvious.

At suitable distances apart are formed, in the longitudinal side bars, A, grooves or rerecesses b b, wherein are secured transverse bars C, said bars bein'g on aplane with the upper surfaces of said side bars. To two of these transverse bars are secured or formed therewith oppositely-disposed right-angular flanged pieces or shoulders C', the purpose of which will now appear. f

D D are two oblong frames, consisting each of three or more parallel bars, d d, connected at their ends and at corresponding distances apart by cross bars d. To the end of each of these cross-bars d are secured hinges.

d, said hinges being also secured to the upper edge or surface of each of the longitudinal side bars, A, by means of which the hiuging of said frames is effected.

The transverse bars C arel so arranged as to allow thev parallel bars `d of each hinged frame clined bars, connected at their lower distant ends onone side by a cross-bar, e', which latter bar bears against the under surface of one of said parallel bars, and, together with the ends of the inclined bars, rests on the rightangular flanges or shoulders O of the two forward .transverse bars, C. From this it willbe seen that the frames D can occupy a parallel position without fear of rubbing of the vehiclewlieels against said frames and the contact of the hay with said wheels.

When it is desired to employ my invention as a stock-rack, an end gate, F, is secured in the heretofore open end of the rack. This end gate consists of two vertical bars, 7"f,having three or more cross-bars, f', said vertical bars being hingedl to an inwardly-projecting portion of a clutching-bar,F. This clutchingbar has formed in its outer rear surface two grooves or recesses, f2, and has portions of its under surface removed,A forming arms g g,

curved on their under surface, the purpose of which will soon appear.

The hereinbefore referred to uprights or standards B B have downwardly-projecting grooves r/ g', formed in their upper ends, and within these grooves the clutching-bar F is secured, the grooves or recesses f 2 on the rear surface of said bar1 serving to retain the same in position in the grooves in said uprights or standards. In thus securing the clutching-bar F', the end gate, F, is caused to hang on the inner side of the rack,its lower cross-bar being secured between the side bars, A, and the end transverse bar, C, and the uprights or standards B.

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By slightly elevating the hinged frames the I 1. The combination, with the side bars and wheel-covers E E may bc removed, and by the hinged frames, of the wheel-covers having forcing each of said fra-mes upwardly to a vertical position the end of the upper parallel 5 bar, d, of each framewill be forced in under vthe curved arms of the clutching-bar F. The latter, for this purpose, having been slightly raisedor elevated, is returned or forced to its lowered normal position. The other ends-of the hinged frames are secured to the ladder B by means of hooks g2, the hooked ends thereof entering eyes or staples of the frame A.

It will be understood, ofcourse, that when my invention is employed as a stock-rack the I5 transverse bars C are removed and suitable boards or flooring placed between the side bars, A.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters 2o Patent, is"

lower cross-bars and the transverse bars provided with right-angular flanges or shoulders, substantially as shown and described.

2. In a hay and stock rack, the combination, with ther hinged frames and the ladder, of the uprights or standards having grooved upper ends, the end gate, and the clutching -bar hinged thereto having curved arms and 3o grooves or recesses, substantially as shown and described, said clutching-bar being secured in the grooved ends of said uprights or standards, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I ax my signature in 3 5 presence of two witnesses.

HENRY HOERMAN.

Witnesses FRANK PETERS, FRED ARNDT. 

